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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle

American Scientist

Born: Aug 30, 1935

Life Ocean People Time Will You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. Sylvia Earle

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. Sylvia Earle

Somebody Back Would Something Call Yard Repair Noxious Last Damage

I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that. Sylvia Earle

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. Sylvia Earle

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. Sylvia Earle

Long Before Fishing End Commercial Middle Predicted Century

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. Sylvia Earle

Time History Ocean Lost Has-Been About More Since Learnt Been Than Same Human Same Time Middle Century Human History

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. Sylvia Earle

War Once Weapons Fish Against Use Used Now

I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences. Sylvia Earle

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people. Sylvia Earle

Today People Water First Think Air Once Bay Some More More People Area Fact Spite Cleaner Generally Taken Putting Because Materials Were Been Than Moved Polluted Sea Santa Santa Monica Avoid Less Actions Aware Noxious Monica

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. Sylvia Earle

Life Attitude Big Ocean Garbage Sewage Entire Could Had Reached Ultimate Ships End Child Did Want Anything Place Use Sea Useful Dispose Aware Nuclear Wastes Resilient

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers. Sylvia Earle

Love Beautiful Art Ruby Kind Red Force Call Forces Fish Very Efficient Modern Modern Art Which Them Really Use Special Special Forces Pair Set Museum Adapted

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